Frida Hansen Lodge #37 was founded on March 5, 1989 in Portland, Oregon. There had been a Daughters of Norway lodge in Portland called Fylke Lodge #6 from 1910 to 1928, but they were mostly absorbed by the Sons of Norway. Now the Daughters are back in town! The lodge hosted the Grand Lodge Convention in 2002 with a theme of "Vikings to the City of Roses." The lodge is also famous for the cod dinner that they host every March which sells out nearly a year in advance! (No need to advertise...) Frida Hansen Lodge meets the second Thursday of most months at 7 PM at Norse Hall at 111 NE 11th Ave (at Couch St.) in Portland. For more up-to-date information about their activities, contact the lodge .

This lodge is named after the internationally renowned Norwegian textile artist of the Arts and Crafts Movement of the late 19th to early 20th century. Frida Hansen was born in 1855 and raised in Hillevåg (now part of Stavanger), Norway. During her youth, she studied art under two other famous Norwegian artists from the Stavanger area: Kitty Kielland (a realist painter, 1843-1914) and Johan Bennetter (a marine painter, 1822-1904). Frida married a rich man in Hellevåg and then this artistically talented "society lady" designed a wonderful garden for their house filled with the flowers she loved.

During the late 1800's an Arts and Crafts Movement became the rage in the world of art as a result of the nationalistic movements occurring through out Europe. Many artists turned to their country’s traditional historic artistic traditions hoping to promote their particular country’s identity. In Norway, Frida Hansen brought to life tapestry weaving and is credited with helping revive it. She relied on ancient Norwegian tapestries and methods where flat, vivid fields of color are interwoven to inspire her artwork and style. Her beautiful hand-spun and hand-dyed wool tapestries are delicate and done in a flat rectilinear style (in which distance, paths, lines, etc. are always parallel to axes at right angles).

Hansen's artwork reflected the changes in the art world occurring during her career—her style evolved from Arts and Crafts to Art Nouveau. Frida's tapestry motifs were based on folklore, biblical stories, and her gardens. She is also credited with keeping weaving thriving in Norway when in 1897 she established a weaving society there. In addition, she also influenced the revival of tapestry weaving in Hungary and Germany.

In 1900, her international fame was well established when she won acclaim at an international exhibition in Paris. At that exhibition, Frida sold many of her works to many European museums. Although she died in Norway in 1931, Frida Hansen’s works are still found throughout museums around the world. She is still known as Norway’s best textile artist of all time.